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Fittings List for Lug Rigs based on Goat Island Skiff
Fittings list for the Goat Island Skiff and other Lug rigged sailboats. Two suppliers who can ship full package.
Sailing Rules Port and Starboard – lesson – Who gives way and actions to avoid damage.
Starboard Tack having rights is only the beginning. How to avoid the other boat without messing up your strategy and what is the best choice if a collision is about to happen with boats on opposite tacks.
What is a good boat to build while stuck in COVID virus quarantine?
COVID doesn’t need to end fun things. What simple boats could be built at home during quarantine and social distancing. Here are mine.
Using a windsurfer mast for a lug rig yard on a Goat Island Skiff
Replace yard on a lug mainsail with a carbon windsurf mast. Replacing a standard wooden yard for the top of the balance lug sail on The Goat Island Skiff with a piece cut from a windsurfer mast.
Controlling Sail Twist on Balance and other lug rigs.
Controlling sail twist on any boat is critical for performance. Here we describe two methods for getting more performance all round and safer handling downwind.
Add hydrofoil stabilisation to a sailing dinghy – specs and methods
It is not difficult to build a hydrofoil stabilised dinghy – Also a model for information sharing so everyone is not always reinventing the wheel
Review of Viola 14 Canoe from Hungary
Read Jenő’s experience with the Viola 14 sailing canoe which is Michael Storer’s latest design – the second and the third boats were built in Hungary by two members of the Hungarian Amateur Boatbuilding community (hajoepitok.hu).
Sailing Fundamental Lesson 2. Sail Trim – Finding sail power and feeling it!
How to get power from the sail quickly and simply in this lesson works on your direct feeling of power and acceleration. Yes! you can FEEL it
Basics of sailing upwind well – Free Online Sailing Lesson
Tutorial on sailing upwind without all the fuss and terminology of normal sailing books. it can be much easier than most books suggest. Even better this will show you how to sail fast and efficiently in moderate winds.
New Photos of Viola 14 Sailing Canoe
New Photos of Viola 14 sailing canoe practice – Viola (the person) is back to sailing after a decade break. Her plan to sail the Viola 14 Sailing canoe in the RAID Extreme Sailing Event later in the year
Upwind Sailing Lesson Part 2 – Gusts, Exiting the gust
What is the best way to exit the gust? Artilcle expains it is best just to go straight and let the sail luff as luffing usually disappears
Extraordinary Boat (Sold) #2 – 12ft sailing dinghy UK
This boat was intended to be a minimal river and open water racer for two lightweight experienced sailors (or one larger one) – big sail for the fluctuating conditions, light enough to plane consistently and cartop portable – it was also based on the Oz Goose built with incredible attention to detail. It requires a small amount of work to complete.
Upwind Sailing Lesson Part 1 – Gusts, Less Effort and more Performance
Big increase in upwind sailing performance and an easier way to teach beginners to sail upwind in medium to strong conditions. They end up being able to handle stronger winds with more confidence as well as sail faster.
Why the Goat Island Skiff is fast.
Why explained. My most popular design is the Goat Island Skiff a light plywood planing sailing dinghy that is devastatingly fast in most conditions – not so surprising when you realise a lot of the development was because of racing dinghy advances but intended to avoid the skyrocketing costs of sailing participation.
Dance of the Two Violas – sailing canoe extended video
With two Viola 14 Sailing Canoes recently launched in Hungary the two skippers were filmed dancing around each other spinning like racing dinghies though they are actually are fast and elegant homebuilt plywood sailing canoes built from a boat plan.
Videos below Extreme British Yachts of Norfolk – Punts, A-Raters and Broads Cruisers
Some of the most extreme inland yachts of Britain (or the world) together for the Three Rivers Race on the Norfolk Broads. A-raters, Norfolk Punts and Broads Yachts
Viola 14 Blitzes a second RAID event in the Netherlands
The BRIO RAID was on last weekend and two sailing canoes participated finishing extremely well outright on handicap – both leading for a substantial part of the races at different times in a fleet of 150 boats